It's Like Catching Lightning

Hey everyone this week was a huge week and it brought back the memories of being in Bucuresti! But now this time is the start of me and Elder Hoisington!

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Tuesday was a tiring day as I met Elder Hoisington and it turns out that before we could do any missionary work, we had to start the process of moving apartments. Apparently, we were moving into a new apartment and that was the first priority before we could start anything. So our days on Tuesday and Wednesday were just moving apartments and cleaning up so everything would go well. Needless to say, we got it done!!!

Thursday we still had stuff we needed to do, but we managed to do some missionary work as well. During that, I was able to meet another Mihai while contacting. He was a super cool guy with a wife from Nepal and a desire to learn. He said he was going through hard times and he wanted to come to church. I hope his desire turns into something great in the future!!!

Friday we had a lesson with this guy named George and it went really well. He struggles to feel the Spirit and that is his biggest stumbling block overall and we feel that it will improve if he comes to church. But he is pretty flaky so we don't know if that will happen. We then had sports night with everyone and it was a muddy, messy, mess of a soccer game. But it was pretty fun and I enjoyed everything.

The weekend included English and church. We also were invited to a barbeque at an American members place for the 4th of July. And it was super great to have some American style food for the first time in a little while. It was a fun way to cap off the week before another week of missionary work.

Keep your head up and have faith in Christ. Don't lose faith in the things you cannot see for you will receive a witness after the trial of your faith. I love you all and hope for only the best!!!

Va iubesc,

Elder Bowen

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